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Maine capped super PAC donations. That type of law could affect Wisconsin a lot.

By The Badger Project on February 20, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Politics is awash in cash from billionaires using Super PACs to blast political ads. Experts say a donation limit could have monumental effects in Wisconsin. First the Maine law must survive court challenges.

Citizens United is infamous. But an obscure case years later made Wisconsin politics a ‘plaything of the super rich.’

By The Badger Project on October 12, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

Before 2015, the amount any single person could have given in annual political donations in Wisconsin was $10,000.
What changed? A monumental U.S. Supreme Court decision you’ve probably never heard of: McCutcheon v. FEC.

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Maine capped super PAC donations. That type of law could affect Wisconsin a lot.

Citizens United is infamous. But an obscure case years later made Wisconsin politics a ‘plaything of the super rich.’

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